Hansard

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Trish Godman): Lab

The next item of business is a debate on motion S2M-5678, in the name of Brian Adam, on behalf of the Standards and Public Appointments Committee, on a breac...

Brian Adam (Aberdeen North) (SNP): SNP

The details of the complaint that was made against Mr Monteith are set out in the report that the Standards and Public Appointments Committee published on 1 ...

The Deputy Presiding Officer: Lab

I call Brian Monteith. Mr Monteith, you have three minutes.

Mr Brian Monteith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Ind): Ind

Three minutes? Thank you, Presiding Officer.I oppose the Standards and Public Appointments Committee motion for three reasons. First, I was denied natural ju...

Margaret Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (Lab): Lab

Will the member take an intervention?

Mr Monteith: Ind

No, I will not.

The Deputy Presiding Officer: Lab

The member should be finishing.

Mr Monteith: Ind

I have worked in the media for 16 years. I understand what an embargo means. To give a member a statement that has an embargo on it means that the statement ...

Mark Ballard (Lothians) (Green): Green

I respect the fact that the Scottish parliamentary standards commissioner ruled against Brian Monteith, but I am genuinely concerned about how minority repor...

Margo MacDonald (Lothians) (Ind): Ind

Although I do not wish to comment on many of the issues that Brian Monteith covered, I do not wish to be part of what can look like a kangaroo court. He was ...

Donald Gorrie (Central Scotland) (LD): LD

The Standards and Public Appointments Committee contacted Brian Monteith and said that it wished to take further representations from him so that he could cl...

Brian Adam: SNP

Brian Monteith's suggestion that he has not had natural justice does a great disservice to the Scottish parliamentary standards commissioner and the Standard...

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): SNP

On a point of order, Presiding Officer.I will not comment on the pros and cons of the case, but I am concerned that Mr Monteith had only three minutes in whi...

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Murray Tosh): Con

That is a statable opinion, but the matter is not covered by the standing orders. In essence, the timings are directed by the business motion. If Mr Neil thi...

Margo MacDonald: Ind

On a point of order, Presiding Officer. Further to Mr Neil's point of order, although standing orders do not cover every jot and tittle of what has gone on i...

The Deputy Presiding Officer: Con

That might be a statable opinion, but it is not a point of order. If members want rules on such matters, they must consider how such rules could be introduce...